Scarab beetles (Scarabaeidae)
Find out more about Anoplognathus species Christmas Beetles on the Australian Museum website: https://australian.museum/learn/collections/natural-science/entomology/christmas-beetles/ or view all the Christmas Beetle records on NatueMapr in this Collection: https://naturemapr.org/collections/sightings/11178
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HaukeKoch
wrote:
Yesterday
Distinguished from A. montanus by the lack of continuous bands of white setae across the abdominal sternites, the broad and long anal tuft of orange hair, and the more concave sides of the male clypeus.
Anoplognathus viriditarsis
HaukeKoch
wrote:
19 Feb 2025
It's lacking the characteristic colouration of A. concolor on the elytra. Likely A. porosus, but it's better to get a view of the rear showing the dorsal side of the pygidium as well to exclude A. boisduvalii and A. olivieri.
Anoplognathus sp. (genus)
LisaH
wrote:
4 Feb 2025
Interesting - I'll look out for them in the bursaria. Are the adult channel-billed cuckoos still around? Because it seems like the fledgling has left, and I'm wondering if the parents have collected it and they're winging their way north . . .
Trichaulax philipsii
arjay
wrote:
4 Feb 2025
Yeah there are more of these beetles in the area. Amazing looking thing. And there have been a pair of channel billed cuckoos all spring/summer. Usually there is only one.
Trichaulax philipsii
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